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Microsoft has created a web site called The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown to show the percentage of users around the world and in particular countries using IE6. This number has been dropping pretty rapidly, but it can't happen fast enough. The data all comes from Net Applications.

It's pretty interesting stuff. World-wide, 12.0% of users run IE6. By far and away, the highest national IE6 usage percentage is in China at 34.5 percent with South Korea at 24.8%. From there it's a big drop down to 10.7% for Saudi Arabia and Taiwan. Western countries are virtually all under 5%, with the US at 2.9%.

When will we be at the point where developers can begin to ignore IE6 for web sites? We're not there yet, and Microsoft is in large part to blame. They've been urging us on to other browsers for some time, but their support policies mean they will continue to support IE6 into 2014.